The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-21
Religious Notes.


Hare: To Adam paradise was home. To the
good among his descendants home is paradise.
Kindness is slowed away in the heart like
rose-leaves in a drawer, to sweeten every object
around.
Hawthorne Whenever we vary from the
highest rule of right, just so far we do an injury
TO the world.
Charming: He who studies nature, and denies
God, ia as a who reads book, and denies
that it had an author
Bishop Walker, of the Episcopal Church, since
going to Dakota one and half year ago, has
built eleven churches He reports his
ehurch as prospecting.
The sect of 'tSoul Seepers" in Jefferson
County, Ind. have ten-year-old boy, Paschal
Porter, for their preacher He IS said to lead
his congregation with eloquent earnestness.
The New York Young Mems Christian Associ-
ton is to build "a new headquarters, and the
Twenty-third-street building will be operated
as a branch. The library will be in the new
building
The Cumberland Presbyterians now have SAG
churches and membership Of nearly 10000.
and the publication house at Nashville, Tenn,
is credited with clear profit of So, lS9 for the
last year.
Don't pout at your friend because he is friend
ly with some one whom you dislike. He will be
none the less true to you because OF his fidelity
to another Suspiciousness can not live where
unalloyed friendship prevails.
Washington Irving: It the policy of a
good old gentleman to make his children feel
that home the happiest place in the world;
the choicest gifts parent can bestow.
student has discovered that out of fifty-six
changes in the revised New Testament twenty
two returned to the early renderings OF Wye
liffe.E This is the more remarkable as Wyclife
was not a Hebrew Greek scholar, but made
his translation from the Vulgate, or Latin vers-
ION of Jerome.
Not as 1 will" the sound grows sweet
Each time my lips the words repeat.
Not as 1 will, the darkness feels
More safe than light when this thought steals,
Iii whispered
All unrest and all loneliness
Not as will because the One
Who loved us first and best has gone
Before the road and still
For Us must all His love fulfill
Not will"
helen Hunt Jackson.
Father Rvington, who is famous a mission
airy to India and chaplain to the Prince of
Wales, is coming to this country in September.
He went to India in 1874, during the great
famine, and accompanied Bishop Caldwell In his
missionary journeys in the south of the stricken
land. During this notable tour he often
preached to thousands in the open air from the
porches of the temples. The crusade resulted
In one of the most extraordinary movements
toward Chr stianity ever seen, 1900 natives
expressing a desire to change their belief.
There appeared years ago little alegory
which touchingly told how Misery remains
persistenty in this world. DEATH in establish
ing his world wide sovereignty, involved all
other forces in ruin. Fame; Wealth, Pleasure
each in turn was vanished to the realm OF
tOblivion. But all attempts TO remove Misery
from her abode among the children of men were
n compact with her that he would not come to
take her away till she should have called for
him three times And Misery has never called.
Lord, many times aweary quite
OF mine self, my sin, nay vanity;
Yet be not Thou, or am lost outright,
Weary of me!
And hate against myself I often bear.
And enter with myself in fierce debate;
Take Thou my part against myself, share
In that just hate!
Best friends might loathe US. if what things per-
We know Of our selves, they also knew
Lord, Holy Onel if Thou. Who knowest worse,
richard Chenevix Trench.
The Presbyterian: You can tear the rosebud
open before the time when it would naturally
open. but you destroy the beauty of the rose.
So we spoil many gift or blessing which God is
preparing for us py our own eager haste. lie
would weave all our lives into patterns of love-
illness HI has a perfect plan for each. 1t is
only when refuse to work according to His
plan that We mar the web. Stop meddling with
the threads of your life as they come from the
Lords hands. Every time you Interfere you
make a flaw. Keep your hands of and let God
as He pleases. Do you think you know
better than He does what your life ought 10 oes
This is a short but beautiful prayer that DR..
Arnold wrote for his own use before ne went
into the school OF Rugby every day; 70 Lord,
thought will be needed for all my work to be
done in that busy world. Now, ere enter upon
it would commit. eye ear. and thought to Thee
Do Thou bless them and keep their work Thine;
that as, through Thy natural laws, my heart
beats and my blood flows without any
thought Of mine for them, my spiritual life
may hold on it's course at these times when my
mind cannot consciously turn to Thee to commit
each particular thought TO Thy service. Hear
my prayer for my dear Redeemers sake.
Amen"
Arnot: AS wheat or chaf we shall all appear
In the great day OF Judgment. There is ma
chine in the Bank of England which receives
sovereigns as a mill receives grain for the pur-
pose Of determining wholesale whether they are
Of full weight AS they pass through, the ma
chinery by unerrin9 laws throws al that are
light to one side and al: that are of full weight
10 another. That process is silent but SO lemn
parable to me- Founded, as il is upon the laws
of nature, it affords the most vivid sinilItude
OF the certainty which characterizes the judg-